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Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible (1992)

Walt Disney's friendship and influence on Eisenstein's movie Ivan the Terrible

Next Stalin made a series of remarks regarding the interpretation of Ivan the Terrible and said that Malyuta Skuratov was a great army general and died a hero's death in the war with Livonia. The director may deviate from history; it is not correct if he simply copies from the historical materials, he must work on his ideas but within the boundary of style. Some of the most interesting and revealing of the Soviet-era files that have now become available reveal how Stalin and the party leadership were determined to exert complete control over Russian movies and their makers.This was part of a campaign orchestrated by Andrey Zhdanov, an important Minister tasked by Stalin with the job of So we now know that in February 1947 the Party leadership decided to purge what it claimed to be serious flaws in the ideological and political content of Soviet culture and to "improve" its artistic content.

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